DOI: https://doi.org/10.52131/pjhss.2022.1004.0315 1578 eISSN: 2415-007X Pakistan Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences Volume 10, Number 4, 2022, Pages 1578–1590 Journal Homepage: https://journals.internationalrasd.org/index.php/pjhss A Pragmatic Approach to Academic Challenges of Students with Visual Impairment during Covid-19: Teacher’s Experiences Tehmeena Hanif 1 , Sajida Naz 2 , Ayesha Ahmad 3 , Momna Azmat 4 1 Ph.D. Scholar, Department of Behavioral Sciences, Fatima Jinnah Women University Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Email: tehmeena.shiraz@yahoo.com 2 Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral Sciences, Fatima Jinnah Women University Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Email: dr.sajida@fjwu.edu.pk 3 Lecturer, Sir Syed College of Education & Professional Training Campus X, Wah Cantt, Pakistan. Email: sayeshaahmad89@hotmail.com 4 Department of Education, Sir Syed College of Education & Professional Training Campus X, Wah Cantt, Pakistan. Email:momnaazmat2018@gmail.com ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Article History: Received: September 12, 2022 Revised: December 25, 2022 Accepted: December 27, 2022 Available Online: December 31, 2022 COVID-19 which was followed by the lockdown all over the world is seriously affecting the lives of students with visual impairment, especially their academic activities. The aim of the study is to understand the current situation of special schools and explore the academic challenges of students and the ways of academic success for students with visual impairment during COVID-19. The study will aid in raising awareness for the government, decision-makers, and policymakers to consider initiatives to reduce the challenges faced by students with visual impairment during this pandemic. This study is based on semi- structured interviews with teachers that included the epistemological nature of research questions. A total of 15 teachers were selected by using a purposive sampling technique. The current research paper provides a pragmatic approach by using a type of thematic content analysis. The study's findings revealed that COVID-19 has a negative impact on the interactional and online learning, emotional state, and behavior of students with visual impairment. It is recommended that future studies may be conducted with parents and children with visual impairment, and it may investigate the other life challenges that are being faced by visually impaired students during this pandemic. Keywords: Academic Challenges COVID-19 Students with Visual Impairment Teachers Funding: This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. © 2022 The Authors, Published by iRASD. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non- Commercial License Corresponding Author’s Email: tehmeena.shiraz@yahoo.com 1. Introduction Covid-19 has a major impact on our daily living. No doubt, online education is the best practice that can be the choice of advanced countries. Online distance learning education has been implemented throughout the world due to the covid-19 pandemic spread (UNESCO, 2020a). Online distance education mostly depends on individual needs and includes those teaching strategies that should be a supportive online system of education. Physical distancing physical distance and learning during lockdown including contextual and economic factors that are related to the covid-19 pandemic have a very bad effect on those groups, which are vulnerable for example families and children with several disabilities (UNICEF, 2020). There have been several measures taken to avoid the spread of coronavirus including social and physical distancing. The main idea behind these strategies is to stop the transmission of this viral disease. But when we talk about the visually impaired people, they are sometimes not able to maintain the distance from the nearby persons and between themselves. During the spread of this coronavirus disease, there were no such measures were taken additional while considering the blind people as most of the markings for the social distancing were created without taking into account the visually impaired people's accessibility. Vision is